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A proposed route for the de Soto Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997. [1] This is a list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539–1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida. This began his ...
De Soto, Kansas (named for sixteenth-century Spanish explorer, Hernando De Soto) De Soto, Missouri (the city, organized in 1857, was named for the explorer Hernando De Soto, who claimed the Louisiana Territory for Spain) DeSoto, Texas (named so for Thomas Hernando DeSoto Stewart, a doctor of Spanish partially descent dedicated to the community)
Hernando de Soto was born around the late 1490s or early 1500s in Extremadura, Spain, to parents who were both hidalgos, nobility of modest means.The region was poor and many people struggled to survive; young people looked for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere.
De Soto National Memorial is a national memorial located in Manatee County, approximately five miles (eight kilometers) west of Bradenton, Florida.The national memorial commemorates the 1539 landing of Hernando de Soto and the first extensive organized exploration by Europeans of what is now the southern United States.
The Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his soldiers may have built a fort nearby as early as 1540. Maps from the early 18th century show an "Ancien Fort" ("Old Fort") near this location. [2] Fort Massac foundation impression, photograph pre-1920. The reconstructed Fort Massac facing the Ohio River shoreline in 2010
Sarasota has long history of avoiding catastrophic storms. Hurricanes caused havoc in varying degrees in 1926, 1944 and 1950, as well as Donna in 1960. Charley was a near-miss in 2004 when its ...
Helena Bridge: US 49: Lula and Helena-West Helena: 1961 Charles W. Dean Bridge (Proposed. Outlook: distant future. Originally proposed to start construction around 2011) Future I-69 / US 278 [5]
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